(It turns out we have a good recent example of this -- credit card companies don't require signed receipts for low-balance credit card transactions. The cardholder always wins any dispute, but businesses are willing to accept that risk in exchange for the convenience of moving people through the line quicker or avoiding the need for customer interaction at all (e.g., at gas stations))
Well gas used to be a low balance credit card transaction...
Does anyone remember the way email jokes used to be sent by fax? They would go round and round, being copied and faxed until you could barely read the thing anymore. We're so spoiled nowadays we can send email jokes via email, to so many more people at a time and there are no long distance charges. Sigh...
It has to do with what is considered a legally equivalent fraud to creating and mailing forged documents.
Additionally a fax normally has an independent audit trail via 3rd party phone records (at least in theory).
So if you sign a contract and fax it through then later claim it wasn't you that sent it i'd ask for a verfied copy of the you or the senders phone bill to start with. Forged documents sent via fax can fall under wire fraud.
I think there's some room for interpretation here. Maybe a performance can not be copyrighted, but there are privacy rights to be considered. If this was a free concert in the park, Prince did not have a reasonable cause to believe it was private and any recording would be permissible. However, if it was in a closed venue where there were published rules about video recording, he could get it removed because it is a privacy violation.
Privacy? Was he playing in his bathrobe in his bedroom with the shades drawn? The only thing in play here is G R E E D. Once you reach a certain level of public exposure there is an implicit lack of privacy.
Realtors are members of the NAR and you have to belong to the NAR to belong to the local MLS - while paying dues to the national and local RealtorTM associations. The whole purpose (from my point of view, of course) is to prevent licensed real estate agents who are not members from participating in the Multiple Listing Service. The MLS used to only be accessible by printout. Now it's available online locally or nationally but the "little guy" is still locked out of the MLS at least until this agreement. If it means that local agents are able to compete and "offer" properties to their clients regardless of whether the agent pays dues or not it could be a good thing; lessening the grip that the association has on the sales market. It could also possibly make things better for the MLS members - think about lifting restrictions on whether the online version of the local paper can show all local properties or not (importing from the MLS database for instance) and suddenly this could be a boon for agents who do pay their dues. Then they can go from minimum wage "million dollar producers" to something worth writing home about.
As I noted above, they didn't find enough to charge him, so more than likely you are right. At the very least we should presume his innocence. Or maybe they thought sending him back to Algeria would sort the problem. I find this an interesting solution. It's much harder to keep an eye on someone when they are out of the country; "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".
This court case says that if I buy a copy of Windows Office and decide I don't like it, that I can uninstall it and sell it to someone else. Previously, software companies had been trying to claim that even after uninstalling the software and destroying every backup copy, you still couldn't sell the original CDs.
Or in the case of Windows fill out a transfer of license form, etc.
To put the argument on the other side of the court - how about porn? The one movie market where the large retailers and the home producers are on close to equal footing. Reason being - no script, no special effects, no huge budget. All you need is a room, a camera, and a few willing people. And homemade porn sure hasn't put a damper on the professionally produced variety. Actually for some people, the more bad porn is out there the more willing they are to pay for good porn.
Whose data is it? Is it yours or theirs? You wrote that you run the database for your customer which would tend to indicate that the data is theirs. How they want to access it should be limited to what is technologically feasible - don't pretend that you own the data.
What I don't get is why there isn't some level of network caching? Http caching on some level reduces the amount of outbound traffic and potentially reduce peering costs (no?). Some form of intelligent, automated peering of some kinds of traffic could do well to reduce the outbound load for torrents and P2P traffic. Would anyone complain if they were still getting the d/l speed if it were somehow seeded within the nearby network instead of out on the net somewhere? Is there a way to intelligently discover which files are being downloaded and once a particular file reached 2 leechers a nearby torrent-cache fired up to help distribute the local load? A company (ISP) that offered something like that could probably garner some goodwill and more clients.
Defendant, and its officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and all those in active concert or participation with Defendant who receive actual notice of this Permanent Injunction shall immediately and permanently be enjoined from directly, indirectly, contributorily, or vicariously infringing in any manner any Copyrighted Works..." So this is kinda like "don't do it again"? Why aren't people laughing about this? If it were a real crime, say like shooting someone, and part of the punishment is that you aren't allowed to shoot anyone else in the future it would seem like a joke. Here no one mentions it at all.
Except that the Notes implementation worked according to the article. It wasn't until Bush decided to "get rid of everything Clinton" that it was broken due to switching over to MS based solutions.
I find it interesting that it's always a comparison to the way someone learned to do it before. How about the wide variety of programs that don't all have the same buttons in the exact same place? Pegasus mail, Thunderbird and Outlook all have different button locations. Even Outlook, Outlook Express and Outlook Web Access have different configurations. Pick any number of browsers and you get the same thing. Why would anyone be surprised that a different OS gives different experiences?
As with software, there is a "Total Cost of Ownership" with vegetables. Your time is not necessarily free in either situation. Nor is any other resource that you might expend or consume in the process. I can see Tesco sponsoring studies showing that it's more expensive to grow your own veggies and hiring Laura Didio to analyze gardens to see if they have any infringing lines of produce by examining the outside of seeds to see if they look the same.
Most claim to be highly religious, yet they take these actions which seem to be purely unethically motivated. I often wonder how they imagine themselves squaring accepting money from lobbyists, etc with God. "it was a lot of money" seems like a terrible excuse. So... maybe it's that they realize the truth: there is no spoo.. er god. All we have is who we are now, not some threat of retribution or vague reward later. Otherwise, why would they do things that they know "god will see"?
One person hearing a voice in his head is crazy.
One million people hearing voices in their head is a religion.
So are you saying that Comcast wasn't arbitrarily blocking traffic and that their routers were aware of where the congestion really occurred and that the RST packets only flowed where "appropriate"? Or maybe it doesn't matter if you can configure a sandvine box to do this or not - they were just picking on a single protocol to drop RST packets into the line for.
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Well gas used to be a low balance credit card transaction...
Not that you could get a fax machine without actually working in an office... oh wait you can get one for under $100.00 if you wanted to.
Does anyone remember the way email jokes used to be sent by fax? They would go round and round, being copied and faxed until you could barely read the thing anymore. We're so spoiled nowadays we can send email jokes via email, to so many more people at a time and there are no long distance charges. Sigh...
Except that with global warming the datacenters will have to be manned by polar bears...
Privacy? Was he playing in his bathrobe in his bedroom with the shades drawn? The only thing in play here is G R E E D. Once you reach a certain level of public exposure there is an implicit lack of privacy.
Are they able to handle the subsequent /. effect? Looks good so far, just don't say "hi" too many times while you're there.
Realtors are members of the NAR and you have to belong to the NAR to belong to the local MLS - while paying dues to the national and local RealtorTM associations. The whole purpose (from my point of view, of course) is to prevent licensed real estate agents who are not members from participating in the Multiple Listing Service. The MLS used to only be accessible by printout. Now it's available online locally or nationally but the "little guy" is still locked out of the MLS at least until this agreement. If it means that local agents are able to compete and "offer" properties to their clients regardless of whether the agent pays dues or not it could be a good thing; lessening the grip that the association has on the sales market. It could also possibly make things better for the MLS members - think about lifting restrictions on whether the online version of the local paper can show all local properties or not (importing from the MLS database for instance) and suddenly this could be a boon for agents who do pay their dues. Then they can go from minimum wage "million dollar producers" to something worth writing home about.
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This court case says that if I buy a copy of Windows Office and decide I don't like it, that I can uninstall it and sell it to someone else. Previously, software companies had been trying to claim that even after uninstalling the software and destroying every backup copy, you still couldn't sell the original CDs.
Or in the case of Windows fill out a transfer of license form, etc.There. Fixed that for you.
Whose data is it? Is it yours or theirs? You wrote that you run the database for your customer which would tend to indicate that the data is theirs. How they want to access it should be limited to what is technologically feasible - don't pretend that you own the data.
That's the state that it is now. What if it weren't? There's more than one way to skin a cat you know.
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But what if there were caching? Something like Robert X Cringely wrote about a while back.
What I don't get is why there isn't some level of network caching? Http caching on some level reduces the amount of outbound traffic and potentially reduce peering costs (no?). Some form of intelligent, automated peering of some kinds of traffic could do well to reduce the outbound load for torrents and P2P traffic. Would anyone complain if they were still getting the d/l speed if it were somehow seeded within the nearby network instead of out on the net somewhere? Is there a way to intelligently discover which files are being downloaded and once a particular file reached 2 leechers a nearby torrent-cache fired up to help distribute the local load? A company (ISP) that offered something like that could probably garner some goodwill and more clients.
Except that the Notes implementation worked according to the article. It wasn't until Bush decided to "get rid of everything Clinton" that it was broken due to switching over to MS based solutions.
You mean IIS can handle more than one site?
I find it interesting that it's always a comparison to the way someone learned to do it before. How about the wide variety of programs that don't all have the same buttons in the exact same place? Pegasus mail, Thunderbird and Outlook all have different button locations. Even Outlook, Outlook Express and Outlook Web Access have different configurations. Pick any number of browsers and you get the same thing. Why would anyone be surprised that a different OS gives different experiences?
As with software, there is a "Total Cost of Ownership" with vegetables. Your time is not necessarily free in either situation. Nor is any other resource that you might expend or consume in the process. I can see Tesco sponsoring studies showing that it's more expensive to grow your own veggies and hiring Laura Didio to analyze gardens to see if they have any infringing lines of produce by examining the outside of seeds to see if they look the same.
One person hearing a voice in his head is crazy.
One million people hearing voices in their head is a religion.
So are you saying that Comcast wasn't arbitrarily blocking traffic and that their routers were aware of where the congestion really occurred and that the RST packets only flowed where "appropriate"? Or maybe it doesn't matter if you can configure a sandvine box to do this or not - they were just picking on a single protocol to drop RST packets into the line for.